
Commercial Analytical Research Organisations Transnational Strategy
CAROTS
CAROTS aims to establish a new type of private or public-private company in the Baltic Sea region: Commercial Analytical Research Organisations (CARO). CAROs, as intermediary bodies between industry and academia, provide enterprises with much quicker yet complete assistance in analytical research in the fields of e.g. new materials, nanotech and life sciences.
Summary
Helping companies thrive: Industrial research start-ups
In the recent past public projects and initiatives tried to bridge the gap between basic scientific research and industrial application of research results in new products and technologies. Besides these public initiatives a small number of private enterprises have developed measurement services for industrial clients. This type of enterprises uses analytical instruments at universities and large-scale Research Infrastructures. Especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) need a comprehensive package solution: Starting with consultation in order to define the required research goals and methods, followed by developing concepts for experiments, the actual measurement and concluding with an interpretation of the results. Thus intermediaries, acting as "translators" between industry and academia, are needed. This role will be assumed by Commercial Analytical Research Organisations (CAROs): commercial or for-profit companies, offering a complete suite of assistance for analytical research needs (e.g. measurements, consultation, sample preparation) to industry. CAROs have access or the potential to use Large Scale Research Infrastructures and/or offer lab technologies. CAROs will help companies to benefit from knowledge and potential of scientists and research facilities and provide companies with much quicker yet complete assistance to solve analytical tasks in areas like e.g. New Materials, NanoTech or Life Sciences and thus significantly expedite innovation.
Initiating a new market
Although a few CAROs already exist in Europe, there is a high potential for additional enterprises of this type. Therefore CAROTS aims to establish this new type of company in the Baltic Sea region. The goal is to initiate a test bed for this new type of intermediaries between industry and Analytical Research Organisations. CAROTS aims at involving private capital – by investing in CAROs – in the collaboration between industries and publicly owned analytical facilities. CAROTS wants to improve conditions for this type of industrial research start-ups along with greater visibility, better knowledge transfer and by attracting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists for support.
Budgets
PARTNERS
Town: Hamburg
Region: HAMBURG
Country: Germany
Representative: Uwe Sassenberg
Phone: 494 089 984 891
E-mail: uwe.sassenberg{at}desy.de
Web: desy.de
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
634.028,59
Town: Geesthacht
Region: SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN
Country: Germany
Representative: Marc Thiry
Phone: 494 089 986 914
E-mail: marc.thiry{at}hzg.de
Web: gems.hzg.de
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
299.125,00
Town: Turku
Region: MANNER-SUOMI
Country: Finland
Representative: Sari Stenvall-Virtanen
Phone: 358 233 351
E-mail: sari.stenvall{at}utu.fi
Web: www.utu.fi
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
305.321,88
Town: Krakow
Region: REGION POŁUDNIOWY
Country: Poland
Representative: Piotr Piwowarczyk
E-mail: piotr.piwowarczyk{at}fii.org.pl
Web: www.fii.org.pl
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
129.268,63
Town: Saint Petersburg
Region: Northwestern Federal District
Country: Russia
Representative: Aleksei Iurin
Phone: 78 124 589 730
E-mail: iurin.a{at}unecon.ru
Web: unecon.ru
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
139.232,65
Town: Vilnius
Region: LIETUVA
Country: Lithuania
Representative: Ingrida Tinfaviciene
Phone: 37 052 356 116
E-mail: i.tinfaviciene{at}lic.lt
Web: http://www.lic.lt/
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
99.202,81
Town: Tartu
Region: EESTI
Country: Estonia
Representative: Marco Kirm
Phone: 3 727 374 629
E-mail: marco.kirm{at}ut.ee
Web: https://www.fi.ut.ee/
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
124.745,00
Town: Rīga
Region: LATVIJA
Country: Latvia
Representative: Lauma Muizniece
Phone: 37 167 039 405
E-mail: lauma.muizniece{at}liaa.gov.lv
Web: http://www.liaa.gov.lv/lv
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
39.252,81
Town: Hillerød
Region: DANMARK
Country: Denmark
Representative: Jakob Øster
Phone: 4 551 157 755
E-mail: jakob.oester{at}regionh.dk
Web: www.regionh.dk
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
261.199,84
Town: Aarhus C
Region: DANMARK
Country: Denmark
Representative: Nikolaj Zangenberg
Phone: 4 572 202 494
E-mail: nzg{at}teknologisk.dk
Web: www.dti.dk
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
69.303,84
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CONTACTS
Project manager
Innovation & Technology Transfer ITT DESY
Uwe Sassenberg
494 089 984 891
Legal representative
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Helmut Dosch
+49 40 8998 - 0
Communication manager
Industrial Liaison Office German Engineering Materials Science Centre (GEMS) Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG)
Caroline Oxley
+49 (0)40 8998-5312